Charles Yandes Wheeler

Charles Yandes Wheeler ( -1899)

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Obituary 1899

"...September 5th, died one of the progressive men of this age, the influence of whose success in his chosen field has affected the armament and naval equipment of every civilisted nation of the earth. The Wheeler-Stir ling armour-piercing projectile, the product of years of toil of his brain, was the actual beginning of that marvellous improvement in armour plate and other features l f ship protection which is now striding forward so rapidly. The Wheeler-Stirling projectile was the force that compelled changes in the structure not only of the then acceptable armour plates, but in naval projectiles as well. Plates that withstood the standard Carpenter and other accepted projectiles were severely handled by the Wheeler she11. Plates that had scattered the Carpenter shell into minute fragments were cracked, entered to various depths, and even completely penetrated by the Wheeler shell. It played pranks with plates that..."More.

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